HISTORICAL ANALOGIES AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS: COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS OF INTERWAR GERMAN WITH POST-COLD WAR SERBIAN AND RUSSIAN IRREDENTISM AND WESTERN RESPONSES

Benedict E. DeDominicis

International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 15-46

Abstract: The paper comparatively analyzes the extended Yugoslav crisis of the 1990s with the current Ukraine crisis, focusing on the eve of the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion. It illustrates post-1989 recurrent political behavior patterns rooted in nationalist irredentism. The Soviet regime authorities did not permit the Russian Social Federated Republic to create its own republic-level Communist Party. The paper demonstrates that Russian internal Soviet diaspora populations in the Ukrainian republic were incentivized to self-identify with the Soviet state. De facto Russification of the Soviet state nevertheless functioned and alienated non-Russian national minorities. The disintegration of the USSR left internal Russophone diaspora identity in a comparatively fluid condition. European Union integration encouraged state building around the republic borders inherited from the Soviet era. Russophone elements within Ukraine faced inducements to self-identify with the titular nation exercising the core community function of the post-Soviet core community state. Political trend irredentist responses in the Russian polity intensified. They view the EU as fortifying the construction of a Ukrainian nation state. The analysis suggests that the prevailing view in Moscow perceived the EU is a proxy for extending US hegemony. Moscow demands great power national status equality in international diplomacy. Ukraine’s partition is likely.

Keywords: Irredentism; European Union; Nationalism; NATO; Russia; Serbia; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 F02 F15 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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